Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11Elevator music : a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong
Bookreader Item Preview
xii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm
"With an arsenal of historical anecdotes and facts, Joseph Lanza sings seriously, with healthy doses of humor and wit, the praises of this misunderstood musical genre. Lanza traces mood music's mystifying presence from the mind-altering sirens who lured Odysseus to the harp David played to soothe King Saul, but the tale gets more intriguing in the early twentieth century, with Erik Satie's "furniture music" experiment, the birth of the Muzak Corporation, and various science fiction stories that featured mood music as a futuristic staple."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315), discography (p. 243-304) and index
"With an arsenal of historical anecdotes and facts, Joseph Lanza sings seriously, with healthy doses of humor and wit, the praises of this misunderstood musical genre. Lanza traces mood music's mystifying presence from the mind-altering sirens who lured Odysseus to the harp David played to soothe King Saul, but the tale gets more intriguing in the early twentieth century, with Erik Satie's "furniture music" experiment, the birth of the Muzak Corporation, and various science fiction stories that featured mood music as a futuristic staple."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-315), discography (p. 243-304) and index
![[WorldCat (this item)]](/images/worldcat-small.png "[WorldCat (this item)]")
Reviews
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to
write a review.
46 Previews
8 Favorites
Uploaded by station20.cebu on
